Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 131301
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-131301.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Puy De Lemptégy
Puy De Tunisset

Latitude: 45°51'16"N
Longitude: 2°57'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.854444444444,2.9644444444444

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Aragonite	Calcite	Cancrinite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica
Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite

Andradite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*
Enstatite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Microsommite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al C Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Cancrinite Cancrinite-sodalite Corundum Feldspar Garnet Mica
Natrolite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Quartz Spinel Titanite Tridymite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	51789	1534
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	51789	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	51789	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	51789	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	51789	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	51789	944
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	1	51789	27
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	1	51789	47
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	51789	1188
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	51788,51789	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	51788,51789	14899
Microsommite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Cancrinite	[(Na,K)₆(SO₄)][Ca₂Cl₂][(Si₆Al₆O₂₄)]	1	51789	7
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	51789	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	51789	2994
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	2	51788,51789	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51789	598
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	0		1516
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	51789	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	51789	458

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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